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By Zoe Delaney The producer ofBenefits Street has admitted he regrets tarring the reputation of the road it focused on. Kieran Smith confessed that when he and his team initially began filming the controversial series, they never imagined the show would take off in the way that it did – claiming he believed the documentary “would fly under the radar” upon its release. He added viewers should never have been told the name of the road made the subject of the series and expressed his sympathy for current James Turner Street residents The Channel 4 documentary series, which followed the lives of p…

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